Video installationDjango Hernández is an international, extremely successful artist who works politically, translating his concerns in a broad artistic spectrum – from spatial and sound installations, videos, Internet animations to photos and drawings – into a poetic and thoroughly humorous language. Instead of supplying unequivocal answers, Django Hernández repeatedly raises questions: about the problematic relationship between America and Cuba, about the American self-image or the Cuban art of improvisation that was born of crisis and has become a permanent state.
In the video installation Palabras discarded telephone poles are seen leaning in the foreground, in the projection the presidents and prime ministers of socialist countries are played to the song "E penso ate" by Mina like a kind of credits roll. The telephone poles are a reference to the praise of communication technology in communist propaganda – in which a key role was attributed to electricity in Lenin's formulation "Communism – that is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country".
51st Venice Biennale, 2005

Django Hernández, born 1970 in Cuba, lives and works in Havana and Düsseldorf